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Grundfos in Austria received an order for 4 300 large UPE pumps for one of the largest district heating renovation projects in Europe when the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, and the country’s 15 largest towns recently started renovation on a large number of heating facilities in their apartment blocks.

For many years APV has been renowned as a supplier of pumps for the food industry, but the company also has expertise in other industries. For example, APV’s range of positive displacement pumps is used for the production of cosmetics and dyestuffs.

Crocodiles and sewerage may, at first glance, seem like a strange combination. However the two do come together at Hartley’s Creek in far North Queensland.

The pump selection software Spaix does not only optimise the selection and configuration of the best pump, but also the supply and procurement process. Therewith the software package on one hand is a planning tool for engineering, on the other hand it is suitably very well to the manufacturer side in order to provide a quotation efficiently. The following example of a pump station from the Degussa AG demonstrates, how Spaix works.

For many years the companies Bänninger, Reiskirchen and ASV Stübbe, Vlotho cultivate good business connections. Both companies are members of the Group AZ. To be close to the Romanian market both decided to set up a common marketing company in Romania, BAENNINGER STUEBBE ROMANIA SRL.

Taking into consideration the size of this country, the population and the industrial development the Peoples Republic of China represents a enormous market potential. With its products this is a potential where the company can find its benefits.

The “Community Benefit/Clean Water” Bicentenary Foundation, which the shareholders of Georg Fischer AG have made possible, also enjoys broad public acceptance and has attracted numerous additional donations. Working together with international charities, the Foundation was able to put the CHF 3.6 million at its disposal to good use, successfully completing five projects for the supply of clean drinking water in Cambodia, Niederurnen, Cameroon, Mozambique, Ecuador and Moldavian.

Anti-corrosion coating and engineering specialists Corrocoat have been awarded a contract worth £360,000 to provide corrosion protection and fluid efficiency systems for the concrete volute pumps, vertical turbine pumps and associated pipework making up the world’s largest irrigation and pumping scheme in Gujarat State, India.

Following successful trials at a number of network pumping stations, Engenica has purchased a fully mobile 100mm pump set from Hidrostal. The diesel driven self-priming unit is intended for emergency applications and over pumping duties in Thames Water north-western region.

Manpower is required for building a 1,420-kilometer long railway through one of the most arid and inhospitable regions in the world. And the men who will be laying the track will need water. Therefore, Grundfos pumps will be playing a vital role in one of Australia’s largest ever infrastructure projects.